This Is Nigeria: Nigerian Rapper, Falz Knocked Over Attack On Church

It is sad that once again a Nigerian who ought to be a responsible
mentor for Nigerian youths has towed the unfortunate path of Ignorance.
In his recent music video, Falz called out Nigerian Churches for
building universities with money of the poor yet made it unavailable for
the poor due to "expensive" tuition.

This is one of the numerous emotional blackmail that churches in
Nigeria are being subjected to. It is sad because one wonders if much of
these accusers even realize what it takes to fund a mediocre university
not to talk of a good one. In much of these debates and attacks against
churches, most seem to abandon the facts rather they go feed on the
lies and propaganda against the church which is an easy target because
most churches rightly do not have PR teams or many individuals
knowledgeable enough to defend them.

How Much Does It Cost To Run A Nigerian University

We would be using federal and state universities as a guide here due to the unavailability of data from mission universities.

In their underfunded states, the University of Ibadan’s annual wage
bill stands at 800 million naira/month translating to 10 billion
naira/annum. Capital allocation to the university also stands at 1
billion naira/annum. While Tetfund’s annual allocation stands at 2
billion naira per annum. Therefore all FG induced funding stands at 13
billion naira for a total number of 29,783 students which put total FG
subsidy of UI at N437,000.00 per annum. This is excluding the IGR made
by the university.

State universities on the other hand have a typical wage bill profile of about 5 billion a year. Example would be the likes of Lautech and EkSu with 390> million naira and 450 million naira as wage bill respectively.

If Governments are finding it hard to fund universities how would fahlz expect churches to do so exclusively?

Until recently Lautech was enmeshed in a series of Industrial
actions which was a result of the two owner state’s inability to pay
subvention for the university. Adekunle Ajasin on the other hand
witnessed an internal crisis when state government had to hike the fees
students where paying. All these are testament to the fact that
university education is severely expensive to fund. So the intelligent
questions that Falz should be asking is how state governments funded
with Oil revenue, Compulsory Tax and a predictable income regime are
finding it nearly impossible to properly fund single universities across
their various states. Not why should churches who are funded by
voluntary donations and a non consistent income regime must fund free
education.

There Are No Free Church Universities Anywhere In The World

While most of the advocates of free church university education are
quick to cite old missionaries as the reason why today’s church must
give free education it is curious as to why they refuse to cite free
church universities in advanced nations of the world today which
currently practices free education. They cunningly make it sound as
though tuition fees was invented by Nigerian pastors. But it is indeed
far from the truth. The fact is that majority of the conventional
churches across the globe funded or founded by churches charge way
higher than their counterparts in Nigerian universities. Exceptions
would be made of university cum seminaries which are usually also funded
by churches.

"Church Universities Are Funded By The Poor" – A lie invented by Mischievous individuals

Half truths are equal to lies, to say that church universities are
funded by the poor is to insinuate that they are exclusively funded by
them. But that would be a lie because the obvious truth is that they are
equally funded by the rich and middle class who in some cases don’t
even bother applying. Much of these self appointed advocates of the poor
are in the reality hypocrites using poor people as a pawn in a dirty
war game against the church.

University education is expensive everywhere and where it is free
someone must be paying for it. Many of the hypocritical advocates of the
poor make it seem as though poor people sell off their inheritances to
gift to churches so as to build schools "that are for the rich". But in
reality what most church members give to churches or university
donations are negligible funds such as 50 – 500 naira. How many 50/100
naira notes are you going to pull together to replace one 800,000
required to educate one kid?

Nigerian Churches Should Continue Their Good works In The Higher Education Sector And Ignore Detractors

The fact of the matter is that Nigerian churches provided over 30
universities which has given thousands of Nigerian youths the
opportunity to study in a country with one of the lowest university per
populations in the world. They’ve done that and have equally saved
Nigeria millions in foreign exchange which erstwhile was lost to
education tourism.

They’ve funded researches in millions, owned research institutes
which helped in curbing infectious disease and now even one now has a
startup laboratory.

Watch a video of the controversial This Is Nigeria song below:

This Is Nigeria: Nigerian Rapper, Falz Knocked Over Attack On Church
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